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Online: Urban sustainable mobility
If well planned, cities can be engines of economic and social development. However nowadays many urban areas battle with everyday traffic. New ways to solve those problems need to be found. The online Classroom initiative by UN-Habitat and its partners want to inform people and show them new ways to sustainable urban mobility.
Mexico City celebrates urban ropeway
The almost 10-kilometre-long Doppelmayr/Garaventa ropeway connects directly to the city's largest transport hub and thus serves as a central transport system. For Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum Padro, however, the urban ropeway has much greater potential.
Pistenbully 600 Polar Greentech – The new model for the whole year!
KÄSSBOHRER is ushering in a new era by rolling out the PistenBully 600 Polar GreenTech – a vehicle for snowy and non-snowy seasons alike – and the first GreenTech model with a winch!
Autonomous urban ropeway
As part of its endeavours to come up with efficient solutions for developing an aerial transport network in Dubai, Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with French mobility specialist MND.
How do you connect the core city and the park city?
The question of connectivity has preoccupied Donauwörth (a large district town in Germany) for decades. Time and again, the idea of an urban cable car came up on the decision-makers' agenda. With the help of an international building exhibition, this system could now become reality.
From the idea to the prototype
The upBUS is a hybrid mobility concept between a cable car and an autonomous bus service. The aerial tramway is to cover highly frequented routes in the inner city area, while the buses take over the fine distribution in the suburbs. A team from the RWTH Institutes of High Frequency Electronics (HFE) and Structural Mechanics and Lightweight Construction (SLA) were in Wolfurt, Austria, for a five-day trial to test, in particular, the changeover process in which the cabin is transferred from the chassis to the cable car guide. "With the test we wanted to show that it is possible to combine the advantages from the bus and cable car transport systems," says HFE employee Eduard Heidebrecht. "A complete success!"
Success factors in the alpine summer
Where does the development of the alpine summer point? What lessons can be learned from the first Covid 19 summer for the second? Klaus Grabler from Manova in an SI interview.
Floriade cable car already built
The cable car of Floriade Expo 2022 is already built a year before the international horticultural exhibition starts in the Dutch city of Almere. Now it receives the first guests during the Floriade Preview.
Enrope: Rescue for small ski lift
Actually, the volunteers have already given up on the partial reconstruction of their 50-year-old ski lift Péra in Trun. Thanks to ENROPE, however, the smallest ski area in Graubünden is now getting a modern surface lift.
Transport hub with cable car
The railway station in Göschenen is to become the transport hub for the Andermatt holiday region. To this end, a cable car is also to be built directly to the Gütsch.
Cablebus 2 gondola lift in Mexico City ready for operation
By the end of 2021, 24 kilometers of ropeways by LEITNER will be operating in the region.
Cable car for road workers
The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) plans to install a temporary cable car between the north and south sides of the Msikaba Bridge Project on the N2 Wild Coast Road.